News: Tolkien in the Media
Posted by on 31 July 2025

The Tolkien Society has today written to the Bank of England to suggest that J.R.R. Tolkien should feature on a future bank note.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has criticised J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings due several questions he has about events after the War of the Ring.

The historian Tom Holland has made a series of interesting tweets recently. The author of Persian Fire, Rubicon,  Millennium, Dynasty, and Athelstan, seems to have a new project, which may be quite interesting Tolkien fans. As many Tolkien fans may not be on twitter, his tweets are summarised below. His first tweet: “I finish Lord […]

Posted by on 25 July 2023

A new version of The Lord of the Rings Musical has opened this week at the Watermill Theatre, near Newbury in Berkshire, UK. This reworked version of the 2006 stage musical will run from July to October.

Sky Arts is to broadcast a TV documentary on Tolkien on Sunday 14th April at 9pm [BST].

On 17 October 2018, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a 15 minute programme at 10.45 pm (BST) on Tolkien’s Forest of Mirkwood.

Posted by on 31 July 2025

The Tolkien Society has today written to the Bank of England to suggest that J.R.R. Tolkien should feature on a future bank note.

Posted by on 25 July 2023

A new version of The Lord of the Rings Musical has opened this week at the Watermill Theatre, near Newbury in Berkshire, UK. This reworked version of the 2006 stage musical will run from July to October.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has criticised J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings due several questions he has about events after the War of the Ring.

Sky Arts is to broadcast a TV documentary on Tolkien on Sunday 14th April at 9pm [BST].

The historian Tom Holland has made a series of interesting tweets recently. The author of Persian Fire, Rubicon,  Millennium, Dynasty, and Athelstan, seems to have a new project, which may be quite interesting Tolkien fans. As many Tolkien fans may not be on twitter, his tweets are summarised below. His first tweet: “I finish Lord […]

On 17 October 2018, BBC Radio 3 will broadcast a 15 minute programme at 10.45 pm (BST) on Tolkien’s Forest of Mirkwood.